Clove Oil
LAKESSENCE Clove Oil
It’s spicy, warming yet slightly bitter, woody, and reminiscent of true clove buds but richer aroma.
LAKESSENCE Clove oils is extracted from the finest quality of Clove buds of the Eugenia caryophyllata trees growing in mid country wet zone in Sri Lanka. Clove buds contains 13 % -17 % of pure essential oils with superior color, refinement, aroma and potency.
Eugenol comprises 72-90% in the LAKESSENCE Clove oil and the compound is most responsible for the aroma of cloves.
Other important essential oil constituents of clove oil include acetyl eugenol, beta-caryophyllene and vanillin, crategolic acid, gallotannic acid, methyl salicylate, eugenin, kaempferol, rhammentin, eugenitin, oleanolic acid, sigmasterol and campesterol.
LAKESSENCE Clove Oil Features
- Extracted from 100% of Ceylon varieties
- 100 % Pure and Natural. Not blended with any other oils
- 72-90 % of Eugenol
- High Concentration Formula
- Superior Aroma therapy quality
- Zero additives; No artificial or natural flavors.
Description
Family Name: Myrtaceae
Botanical Name: Eugenia caryophyllata
Extraction Method: Steam Distillation
Plant Part Used: Bud
Appearance: Yellow to brownish color
Odour: Spicy, warming yet slightly bitter, woody, reminiscent of true clove buds but richer aroma.
Specific Gravity: 1.0410 -1.0540
Refractive Index: 1.5280- 1.5380
Optical Rotation: -1.5°~0°
Products and Uses
- Clove is largely used as dried whole buds. Ground clove is used for curry mixtures and clove oil is used for flavoring foods and in pharmaceutical and perfumery industry.
- Cloves are used either whole or ground to provide flavor for both sweet and savory foods in pickling and the production of sauces and ketchups.
- In medicine it is valued as a carminative, aromatic and stimulant. It is being used in cigarette industry as a flavoring agent.
- Clove oil is used in perfumes, in dentistry and a clearing agent in microscopy.
- Clove is used in Indian Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese medicine, western herbalism and in the dentistry, where the essential oil is traditionally used as an anodyne (painkiller) for dental emergencies.
- Cloves have carminative effect to increase hydrochloric acid in the stomach and to improve peristalsis. Clove oil is used in various skin disorders like acne, pimples etc. and also used in skin burns , skin irritation and sensitiveness of skin.